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Author Biography

Andrew Pressman, FAIA, an architect and professor in the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of New Mexico, leads his own award-winning architectural firm in Albuquerque and Washington, D.C. His work has been featured in more than twenty professional, scholarly, and popular publications, including Architectural Record, Architecture, and the Washington Post. The Editor in Chief of Architectural Graphic Standards, 11th Edition (Wiley), Pressman has written five books on architecture and holds a master's degree from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.